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1
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ABJURE

A

renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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ADUMBRATE

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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ANATHEMA

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a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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ANODYNE

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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APOGEE

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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APOSTATE

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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APOTHEOSIS

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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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ASPERITY

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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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ASSEVERATE

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to aver, allege, or assert (he _____ that he was innocent in all three cases)

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ASSIDUOUS

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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AUGURY

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omen, portent

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BELLICOSE

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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CALUMNIATE

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to slander, to make a false accusation;

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CAPTIOUS

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument

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CAVIL

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to find fault without good reason

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CELERITY

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speed, alacrity, think accelerate

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CHIMERA

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she monster

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CONTUMACIOUS

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insubordinate, rebellious, consumedly

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DEBACLE

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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DENOUEMENT

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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21
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DESCRY

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to discriminate or discern

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DESUETUDE

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Disuse (the docks fell to a state of _______)

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DESULTORY

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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DIAPHANOUS

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transparent, gauzy, delicate (the ____ dress)

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DIFFIDENT

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self confidence

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DIRGE

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a song of grief or lamentation

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ENCOMIUM

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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ESCHEW

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to shun or avoid

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EXCORIATE

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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EXECRATE

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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EXEGESIS

A

critical examination, explication

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EXPIATE

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to atone or make amends for

33
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EXTIRPATE

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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FATUOUS

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silly, inanely foolish

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FRACTIOUS

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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GAINSAY

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

37
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HETERODOX

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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IMBROGLIO

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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INDEFATIGABLE

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not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

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INELUCTABLE

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certain, inevitable

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INIMITABLE

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one of a kind, peerless

42
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INSOUCIANT

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless; showing a lack of concern; indifferent (he was so_____ about the boy’s whereabouts, i thought he just couldn’t be the boy’s father

43
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INVETERATE

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deeply rooted, ingrained, habitual (_____ practices that I do without thinking)

44
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JEJUNE

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory(no value or importance); childish, immature, puerile

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LUBRICIOUS

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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MENDICANT

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a beggar, supplicant

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MERETRICIOUS

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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MINATORY

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menacing, threatening

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NADIR

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low point, perigee

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NONPLUSSED

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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OBSTREPEROUS

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous (energetic, loud)

52
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OSSIFIED

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; ;literally, turned into bone

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PALLIATE

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

54
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PANEGYRIC

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium

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PARSIMONIOUS

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cheap, miserly

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PELLUCID

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

57
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PERORATION

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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PLANGENT

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pounding, thundering, resounding

59
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PROLIX

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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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PROPITIATE

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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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PUERILE

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

62
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PUISSANCE

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power, strength

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PUSILLANIMOUS

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cowardly, craven

64
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REMONSTRATE

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to protest, to object

65
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SAGACIOUS

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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise, like a sage

66
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SALACIOUS

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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SALUTARY

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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SANGUINE

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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SATURNINE

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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SENTENTIOUS

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

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STENTORIAN

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extremely loud and powerful

72
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STYGIAN

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gloomy dark

73
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SYCOPHANT

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

74
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TENDENTIOUS

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biased; showing marked tendencies

75
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TIMOROUS

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timid, fearful, diffident

76
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TYRO

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novice, greenhorn(inexperienced) , rank amateur

77
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VITIATE

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil to make ineffective

78
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VOLUBLE

A

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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